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WARNING in ieee80211_tx_h_rate_ctrl

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2025/11/07 15:30
Bug presence: origin:upstream
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Reported-by: syzbot+35ad01f7f3622937dc14@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 149d, last: 7d10h
Bug presence (1)
Date Name Commit Repro Result
2026/03/29 upstream (ToT) 7aaa8047eafd C [report] WARNING in ieee80211_tx_h_rate_ctrl
Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 WARNING in ieee80211_tx_h_rate_ctrl -1 2 108d 122d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/03/28 18:48
upstream WARNING in ieee80211_tx_h_rate_ctrl wireless -1 C error 719 12d 311d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/05/29 12:33

Sample crash report:
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wlan1: Dropped data frame as no usable bitrate found while scanning and associated. Target station: 08:02:11:00:00:00 on 5 GHz band
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 3463 at net/mac80211/tx.c:769 ieee80211_tx_h_rate_ctrl+0xe5b/0x1790 net/mac80211/tx.c:762
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 3463 Comm: kworker/u4:9 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
Workqueue: events_unbound cfg80211_wiphy_work
RIP: 0010:ieee80211_tx_h_rate_ctrl+0xe5b/0x1790 net/mac80211/tx.c:762
Code: 8b 30 45 31 ff 83 e6 07 41 0f 95 c7 31 ff e8 9c f9 83 f7 43 8d 4c 7f 02 48 c7 c7 a0 27 df 8b 48 89 de 4c 89 f2 e8 05 ae 4d f7 <0f> 0b 41 bf 01 00 00 00 e9 89 01 00 00 e8 c3 f5 83 f7 e9 be fd ff
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000d4074e0 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: b96783ef3f2d9200 RBX: ffff88807b48d5b0 RCX: ffff88802e139e00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000002
RBP: ffffc9000d407650 R08: ffffc9000d4070e7 R09: 1ffff92001a80e1c
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff52001a80e1d R12: ffffc9000d4077a0
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff88805d432744 R15: 0000000000000001
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b8e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f219af4da08 CR3: 000000000cf32000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 invoke_tx_handlers_late+0xb6/0x1810 net/mac80211/tx.c:1862
 ieee80211_tx+0x2d8/0x460 net/mac80211/tx.c:1983
 __ieee80211_tx_skb_tid_band+0x4d5/0x610 net/mac80211/tx.c:6081
 ieee80211_tx_skb_tid_band net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h:2276 [inline]
 ieee80211_send_scan_probe_req net/mac80211/scan.c:641 [inline]
 ieee80211_scan_state_send_probe+0x560/0x930 net/mac80211/scan.c:669
 ieee80211_scan_work+0x4e9/0x1c40 net/mac80211/scan.c:1139
 cfg80211_wiphy_work+0x225/0x260 net/wireless/core.c:437
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2653 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa5d/0x15d0 kernel/workqueue.c:2730
 worker_thread+0xa55/0xfc0 kernel/workqueue.c:2811
 kthread+0x2fa/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:388
 ret_from_fork+0x48/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:152
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:293
 </TASK>

Crashes (6):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/03/29 19:59 linux-6.6.y c09fbcd31ae6 b5ceaad2 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ieee80211_tx_h_rate_ctrl
2026/01/13 23:32 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ieee80211_tx_h_rate_ctrl
2025/12/04 23:48 linux-6.6.y 4791134e4aeb d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ieee80211_tx_h_rate_ctrl
2025/11/08 12:50 linux-6.6.y 0a805b6ea8cd 4e1406b4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ieee80211_tx_h_rate_ctrl
2025/11/08 01:35 linux-6.6.y 0a805b6ea8cd 4e1406b4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ieee80211_tx_h_rate_ctrl
2025/11/07 15:30 linux-6.6.y 0a805b6ea8cd 4e1406b4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in ieee80211_tx_h_rate_ctrl
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.